Hitler’s children and the sins of the fathers

The Hitlers used to live near to me in Highgate, north London. Quiet family, kept themselves to themselves; weren’t terribly keen on the Jews, as far as I remember. Bridget Hitler, the Führer’s Irish sister-in-law, and her son, the improbably named Scouse-born William Patrick Hitler, lived in England after her husband Alois Hitler had been deported as an undesirable alien, most likely a pimp. (While one of the stranger immigration ironies of history is that the judge at Adolf Hitler’s 1923… Read on